14 thoughts on “Trump Gives Hickenlooper The Best Welcome Gift He Has”

1. So. Much. Winning.  Clearly we need to re-elect a senator who votes with this dimwit 90% of the time? 

   China retaliates with tariffs of $75 billion on US Goods

   The US-China trade war ratcheted up yet again on Friday, with Beijing unveiling a new round of retaliatory tariffs on about $75 billion worth of US goods.

   China will place tariffs of 5% or 10% on US imports starting on September 1st, according to a statement posted by China's Finance Ministry.

   The Ministry also announced plans to resume tariffs on US imports of automobiles and automobile parts. The tariffs would be 25% or 5%, and would take effect on December 15th.

    

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   1. I expect Powerful Pear and Moderatus/PodestaEMails/SoiledBlueDress to be laying low following Trump's "hearty" endorsement in the Senate race.

      With friends like Deep State Donald and Moscow Mitch, the co-Kings of the Swamp, Colorado Republican leaders don't need enemies.

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      1. We can expect our little beauty queen to be triggered on a daily basis henceforth (or at least until the Cabinet invokes the 25th or those Big Macs take their toll.)  His entire familial budget benefits from the largess of the American taxpayer (the other half thanks to the appointment powers of a certain occupant of 1600 Penn and the support of our junior senator).  Expect him to become more and more unhinged as this unfolds. There won't be a dry cleaner in Pueblo able to return that dress to its original glory once this national nightmare ends. 

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   2. Trump is pushing our economy into a nosedive, and to avoid the inevitable smoking hole, all he can do is yell at Powell of the Fed to dig faster to make room for his "landing".

      “While monetary policy is a powerful tool that works to support consumer spending, business investment, and public confidence, it cannot provide a settled rule book for international trade,” said Mr. Powell, who spoke in Jackson, Wyo., at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual symposium.

      “Our challenge now is to do what monetary policy can do to sustain the expansion” to achieve the Fed’s goals of low unemployment and stable inflation, he had said earlier in the speech.

      Mr. Powell’s remarks drew a swift and angry reaction from Mr. Trump, who equated the Fed leader with the president’s adversary in the trade war, President Xi Jinping of China.

      “My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?,” Mr. Trump wrote in one of a series of Twitter posts.

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      1. There are some eerie similarities between Hoover and Trump.  We may be reliving what my mother in law called the “Dirty Thirties”.

         Xenophobia, disastrous trade deals, rising fascism, man-made ecological disaster- we have all the ingredients for this recipe. 

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         1. Good article.  In contrast to Trump, who is a mendacious fool, Hoover actually was a successful businessman in his own right, and sincerely believed in his policies, as misguided as they were for the times.

            Does anyone have any confidence that Trump believes in anything he does or says?

            Trump conceded regret about escalating trade war with China, then reversed course, saying he wished he’d raised the tariffs higher

            Pressed early Sunday if he was rethinking the way tensions had escalated between the two countries, President Trump responded, “Yeah, sure why not. Might as well. Might as well. I have second thoughts about everything.”

            White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham released a statement hours later saying the president's comments had been "misinterpreted."

            "President Trump responded in the affirmative — because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher,” she said.

             

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2. When I represented CO on the DNC, our party didn’t take sides in primaries. The @dscc has no qualms at all—they recruited a candidate to fight the #GreenNewDeal & #MedicareForAll, and now they’re doubling down on their investment.

   We can bend to Washington’s will—or break them.

   — Andrew Romanoff (@Romanoff2020) August 23, 2019

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   1. Good morning, beautiful. Do you have a specific point with this post? Or this is a better way to make an extra $20 bucks before lunch than your usual sorid activites? (while you’re on the taxpayer’s clock).

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   2. Hey Buddy.

      Here is a riddle for you:

      Q: What do Andrew Romanoff and John Hickenlooper have in common?

      A:  They would both be infinitely better Senators than Cory Gardner.

      BTW, you can thank Trump for reminding the voters of the state of Colorado of that fact.  

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      1. It's almost like our beauty-queen-moonlighting-as-a-federal-employee missed the part where his savior promised everyone the best health care in the world AND told us we'd have the cleanest air and water under his Sadministraiton (if we'd just go back to the good ol' days of coal)

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   3. Interesting — Soiled Blue Dress (nice referent — the one I've seen most recently was a photo of Jeremy Epstein lounging in one)

      1. follows Romanoff on Twitter, apparently.

      2. tweet now shows

      • 28 people talking about it
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      3. an interesting labeling of Hickenlooper's entry as "Washington's will" — not certain Romanoff doing that would be as helpful as letting other people make the case. 

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      1. Is it a mischaracterization?

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      2. Was it Washington that twice elected Hick governor or did we voters have a bit to say about that.

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         1. If by Washington you mean Larry Dan Maes Curly Tancredo Moe ‘Standing by a horses ass’ Bob Beauprez you just might be on to something 😂

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